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Wow, the world is different now because of social media. It sure is. It's kind of hard

to imagine what it was like before. I also think that nobody ever imagined the degree to

which shaming and ostracization came to be such a part of people's lives. It's almost

like woven into the fabric of our culture at this point. Yeah, social pressure gets applied

swiftly and vigorously. And sometimes it's over difference of opinion, perspective or

judgment, not over an ism or a bigotry. It feels sometimes like a really toxic hobby because

like a lot of these conversations go absolutely nowhere. People leave them unchanged and yet there

has been so much turmoil and strife in the process that it seems like only kind of the bad

stuff is what actually got done. And yet I mean like implicit bias is one thing, but it'll be

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